Paul VignaSaw this bottle of Welch's Refreshment Wine during my travels. Now THAT'S a bottle that would stand out on a shelf. Some notes from around the region:

Nissley Vineyards & Winery Estate in Lancaster County, Pa., is touting its 18 awards among the 20 wines it entered recently in the Finger Lakes International Wine competition. That includes a gold for winemaker Bill Gulvin's 2009 apple wine and silvers for his Grapeful Red and Valley Red wines. You can find the complete list of awards here and the list of the winery's wines here. A member of the Uncork York trail, the winery's Music in the Vineyards concert series draws several thousand people on a Saturday night to picnic, share some bottles of wine and listen to the bands. That series will begin July 3 this year.

Manatawny Creek Winery announced by e-letter the other day that its Niagara, Concord and Pinot Grigio are all back in stock. The winery is open seven days a week.

Stargazers Vineyard in Coatesville, Pa., a member of the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail, plans to release its 2009 GV (Gruener Veltliner) the first Saturday in June. It also reported in a note to its e-letter subscribers that its lower vineyard was hit twice by frost the past couple of weeks, "so the 2010 crop will be reduced, especially the Chardonnay."

Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard in Comus, Md., on the border of Montgomery and Frederick counties, says that it just planted 4,000 new vines: Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Chardonnay. New wines that will be ready to purchase sometime in June or July will be the Pinot Grigio, chardonnay, chardonay Reserve, Circe, Comus and Stomp (here's the skinny on Stomp). Currently available, although in limited quantities, is its 2009 Pinot Grigio. Its 2007 vintage won the 2008 Maryland Governor's Cup.

Carl Helrich of Allegro Vineyards is the third regional winemaker that I've seen or heard in the past couple of weeks reference the effects of climate change on what they do. He mentions it here in this post on his blog, writing about the frost last week that took temps in his vineyard down to 28 degrees.